So.... long time no post! My muse seems to have run off with the spoon and the cow and whomever else it was who jumped over the moon, and I'm trying to think up ways to coax it back. Which generally means FICATHON TIEMS!

Series 5 is over in a week, it's summer, hopefully some people have a little bit of free time. If you think you might be one ( Read more... )

So, I can't help it. I'm a social scientist. I see people doing stuff (and we are inveterate stuff-doers, we humans, aren't we?) and I want to know why. Why that stuff and not this other stuff, why do the stuff now instead of later, and how do people feel about this stuff? I'm endlessly fascinated.

Diana Gabaldon's recent experience with Being ( Read more... )